Attraction
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In the 1990’s, the main
attraction
of monetary union for Italian and Spanish politicians was that the new currency would bring down interest rates and make foreign money available for cheap financing of government debt.
That will require combining the soft power of
attraction
with the hard power of military might to produce a “smart power” strategy for providing global public goods.
The same paranoia-fueled
attraction
to bogus science often motivates authoritarians to endorse conspiracy theories.
The bad news is that he still does not understand soft power – the ability to get what you want through
attraction
rather than coercion.
A well-run military can be a source of attraction, and military cooperation and training programs can establish transnational networks that enhance a country’s soft power.
The Arab revolutions, following on the European Union’s resounding “No, Yes, But” to Turkey’s membership bid, have reinforced among Turks the
attraction
of the Orient while liberating their mix of nationalistic and religious impulses.
Will they be reduced to nothing more than a tourist attraction, peddling cheap mementos of what a once-great culture?
A better approach would be to look to the long run, use the soft power of attraction, expand exchanges and contacts with Russia’s new generation, support its participation in the World Trade Organization and other market-oriented institutions, and address deficiencies with specific criticisms rather than general harangues or isolation.
These values hold great
attraction
for the people in the former Soviet Union—and that includes the leaders as well as the masses, in spite of the fact that the West did not back up its values and principles with deeds in the past.
The
attraction
of right-wing parties to women should be examined, not merely condemned.
Alternatively (or coincidentally), Russia might discover a new business center of gravity in Central Asia and East Asia, though this would hardly be the “liberal empire” that Anatoli Chubais once envisaged, for it would be based on the mutual
attraction
of autocrats.
A country can compel others to advance its interests in three main ways: through coercion, payment, or
attraction.
This leaves
attraction
– a more potent source of power than one might expect.
Democracy promotion is better accomplished by soft
attraction
than hard coercion, and it takes time and patience.
Though it clearly lacks the power to impose its values by force, the US certainly has the power to unsettle established conditions, both through the
attraction
of its “soft power” (the American way of life) and by the exemplary use of force.
Their
attraction
to the Union is a sign of the appeal - the "soft power" - of the idea of European unification.
The reputed site of her suicide became a tourist
attraction.
The appearance of virtue is an important source of a leader’s soft power or the ability to get what one wants by
attraction
rather than coercion or payment.
Machiavelli also stressed the importance of the hard power of coercion and payment when a leader faces a tradeoff with the soft power of attraction, “since being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself.”
Some other
attraction
may appear.
As Gerald Bronner, a French sociologist, has convincingly shown, education neither increases trust in science nor diminishes the
attraction
of beliefs or theories that scientists regard as utter nonsense.
Hard power works through payments and coercion (carrots and sticks); soft power works through
attraction
and co-option.
They argued at first that the deficits merely reflected the world’s
attraction
to superior US investment opportunities, an odd position given that the US was not growing especially quickly compared to emerging markets.
Without the soft power that produces
attraction
and loyalty to the leader’s goals, entrepreneurs run off in all directions and dissipate a group’s energies.
The
attraction
of remaining in power is getting stronger across the region.
Some have suggested placing a large object nearby to change its trajectory through mutual gravitational
attraction.
Indeed, without the
attraction
of the EU – its “soft” power – such changes would not have occurred.
The enrichment of the subject matter with previous analyses, connections, and conclusions regarding the same cited texts was certainly part of the
attraction.
In terms of stereotypes, various psychological studies show that men gravitate to the hard power of command, while women are collaborative and intuitively understand the soft power of
attraction
and persuasion.
The soft power of
attraction
becomes an even more vital power resource than in the past, but so does the hard, sharp power of information warfare.
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